1980 Shadow, Nice Straight Body, Excellent Interior, Drives Well, Great Value! on 2040-cars
Macon, Georgia, United States
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Thisi is a nice proper Rolls Rocye Siilver Shadow, a 1980 US model, as best as I can discern. It's finished in a two tone scheme, as I believe most all these cars were, with the top sections in what appears to be a "champagne" or "smoke silver" finish. The bottoms/sides are in a dark brown metallic, I believe it is called Walnut. It makes a really, really good appearance, inside and out. The interior is especially nice. The odometer shows approximately 17000 miles, but PLEASE NOTE: This car is being sold "mileage exempt" under Ga law (vehicles more than 10 years old). I have a fairly recent ticket from last year that shows a remove/repair/and re-install on the speedometer for a broken gear, so I need to make that clear. Frankly, many facets of the car do look like 17k miles, but I want to make sure that I give total disclousre on the miles. As with any 34 year old British car, there are good and bad features. I will do my best to give you the most accurate description: THE GOOD
More Good: All power windows, central locking, and power seat functions are working. Has the original Blaupunkt analog pushbutton US radio, and the original dash mounted Pioneer cassette player in its small cubby hole (don't know if it works, can't find a casseette!). Lights, brake lights, etc, all work withtout issue. Carpets look excellent, and it has the expensive lambswool floor mats that are also well kept. I have what appear to be the original books, manuals, driver's guides, etc in the proper leather pouch. Not smoky, and no foul odors. Glass looks to be orginal and in excellent shape. THE BAD (and it's not that bad):
There is a lot to like about this car. Take another look at the photos, and the average person would be amazed to know its age. The interior is really great--leather, wood, and chrome trim are super good. With a little TLC, and the right Rolls wrench, you can have a beautiful motorcar for not a lot of dollars. The car belongs a client's wife, who received it after her mother passed. It was used as a halo piece for the family's formalwear shop, hence the limited use. Since she has passed, they clients have no place to keep it, nor the interest in keeping it up. (They aren't "car people"). And as you already know, not driving these things is about the worst thing you can do to them. If you will call or email me, I will do my best to give you the most accurate and honest answers I can. Please note: I know there are many long distance and international buyers on Ebay. But I will NOT sell you this car until you have, at the very least, talked with the most recent tech who has worked on it. He spoke highly of the car and will tell you what he honestly knows. He would give you a a good PPI for very little money. This is not usually my kind of car (it's not German). But these are good folks who need some help, and someone will get a lovely motorcar for far less than the price of a basic pickup truck. Check me out at www.encoremacon.com. I am about an hour south of ATL Hartsfield aiprort and can help you with transportation, logistics, etc. Pleae note that my feedback is 100% and I want to keep it that way. Paypal is OK for the intial deposit, but wire only for the balance. I have the lien free GA title in hand. Thanks for looking! Let's find her a good home! |
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Rolls-Royce Alpine Trial Centenary Collection celebrates century-old Austrian race
Tue, 23 Apr 2013Among the harvest of premieres at the Shanghai Motor Show was a special-edition Rolls-Royce Ghost to celebrate the 1913 Austrian Alpine Trials. Four Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts entered the race a century ago, and in completing the 1,820-mile challenge flawlessly earned the sobriquet "The Best Car in the World." The new Ghosts commemorating the feat represent two firsts for the brand: Rolls-Royce has never created a bespoke homage to one of its own cars, and it has never released a car with a black grille.
Those two features, as well as blue paint and black wheels, are in tribute to James Radley's privateer entry in that 1913 race that drove alongside the three factory teams. Other special features include the coachline (pinstripe) that evokes the four cars from the 20th-century race, and inside, a color-matched headliner, a clock with the rally stages and times, and topographical inlays on the front fascia and rear picnic tables.
The 20-Ghost Club will be reenacting the event this year, the parade including Radley's 1913 car. It kicks off in Vienna, Austria on June 14. For the time being you can read the press release below and check out the high-res photos above.
Rolls-Royce Black Badge Cullinan 'Blue Shadow' straddles Earth and space
Thu, Jun 1 2023Rolls-Royce has another special edition for stargazing types who might not have the schedules to stay up all night stargazing. Called the Rolls-Royce Black Badge Cullinan "Blue Shadow" Private Collection, its design honors the nebulous area where Earth's atmosphere ends and so-called "outer space" begins. Since the edges of our planetary terrarium blend into space, there's no useful coloring-book-like boundary. The International Aeronautics Federation uses an arbitrary height called the Karman line, which Hungarian engineer and physicist Theodore von Karman decided would be 100 kilometers above Earth because that's around where the last traces of aerodynamic lift petered out, giving way to "astronautics." The Cullinan Blue Shadow is a canvas for artistic representation of the Karman line and what lies beyond. The deep blue exterior color signifies the atmosphere's upper layers where the blackness of space suffuses the blue of our daytime skies. Contrasting satin jewelry in the front fascia suggests the silica and aluminum oxide whitewash applied to the thermal protection tiles on craft like NASA's Space Shuttle. The Spirit of Ecstasy was produced in 3D-printed titanium coated in a blue-tinted lacquer, the base inscribed with "Blue Shadow Private Collection." The Cullinan's 22-inch wheels are also dressed in a lacquer layer for dark translucence. Inside, the starlight headliner's been decorated with an embroidered moon composed of five colors, each color sewn in with a different technique and texture. The headliner's 799 white LEDs and 384 blue LEDs create a field of stars for Luna, Rolls-Royce engineers tweaking the twinkling effect in the LEDs "for an even more enchanting glow." The painted instrument panel and door cards transition from black up high to dark and then light blue below. Six layers of colors combine five blues with a black, providing another kind of twinkle thanks to blue and clear glass particles in the clearcoat. The Private Collection clock comes with blue anodized details and an engraved "Blue Shadow." The artwork created in the seats is a first for Rolls-Royce. Each seat's been perforated more than 75,000 times in a pattern representing the Earth as seen from space.
Rolls-Royce planning one or two new models based on the Ghost
Wed, 29 Aug 2012Fourteen years after Volkswagen bought Bentley, its English brand has two distinct lines, Mulsanne and Continental - with numerous variants at the Continental's lower price point - an SUV on the way and perhaps a sports car and a Mulsanne convertible, too. In the 14 years since BMW bought Rolls-Royce, its English brand has the Phantom and Ghost - with three variants at the Phantom's much higher price point. Rolls-Royce doesn't chase sales, but the difference in the brand direction helps explain why Bentley has sold more cars in the first six months of this year than Rolls-Royce sold all of last year.
And even though Rolls-Royce isn't solely about the tally, it would still like to improve on the 3,538 cars it sold last year - a sales record that eclipsed a mark set in 1978. To do so its CEO is planning one or two more Ghost-based models beyond the as-yet-unnamed Ghost Coupe due next year, perhaps to be called the Corniche, according to a report in Autocar. A convertible version of the Ghost Coupe is the obvious guess for one of them, and it would get the double-R "closer to 4,000" sales, where the CEO would like to be.
Sales might not be the only part of it, though; the headline of the Autocar piece says the CEO wants the new models because they're "required to give Rolls-Royce a proper identity." If that is accurate, we have no idea what kind of identity Rolls-Royce could be missing that would be served by a wider range of cars in the Ghost range, which by their place in the brand's own lineup are admittedly not the most opulent carriages on the planet.





















